Selkie 585

Aaaaaaand with Selkie nodding off to sleep after a difficult week-and-a-half (in-story) of getting bullied then fighting to clean up the mess, we call it “closed” on the Trunchbull arc. The characters stories and information within it won’t go away, but for now it’s a closed story arc. I know you’ll all miss the Trunchbulls and the Principal, but we’re moving onward.

Two things will happen on Monday. The first thing is the start of a new arc, something I think you’ll all enjoy seeing (hopefully). The second thing is a little something I’ve been setting up.

No good night kiss for sweet little girl? Makes it even more heartbreaking.

As to the bow: Taking apart an old-fashioned alarm clock (mechanical, with dozens of small toothed wheels) to see how it works: possible. Taking apart a mechanical wristwatch to see how it works: difficult. Taking apart a microprocessor to see how it works: forget it. Taking apart a piece of alien micro (or even nano) technology to see how it works: no comment.

Actually kissed him three times, not one. Twice on the cheek, lovingly, and once on the hand, resentfully, to prove she did NOT have poison spit. Oops.

But I thought the same thing about the kiss – Todd shoulda kissed HER goodnight. Lots of places to kiss someone that do not get saliva on you. I, frequently, kiss my daughter on top of her head. That would be a perfect place to kiss a sleeping child.

The bow has been off of her before. It triggers based off of a long distance. It only triggered when she had gotten far enough away to be riding in a car on the way to school. I don’t think it’ll trigger again.

It must be very different to adopt a kid old enough to remember their parent – to remember and love them – than a child who never knew them. Kind of reminds me of the kid in Free Willy – he has the foster parents trying to help him but keeps insisting his mom’s going to come back and get him some day. Selkie has been surprisingly free of that so far.

Interesting that she has no memory of a “dads” as far as we can tell, but considering what’s his name’s “baby sister” was in an apparent egg underwater, I guess that’s not a potential surprise.

Hey Dave, calling back to the subject of Patreon: Tailsteak, the guy who writes Leftover Soup (and to my mind is one of the most thought-provoking webcomic artists on the internet), has just announced that his Patreon level has reached the point where he can drop from a full-time job to a part-time job — at $400/month funding from fans, a lot of whom are $1 and $2 supporters.

As he puts it, he cares much more about free time than about being able to buy things, and when he can reclaim some of the time he puts into work just trying to pay the rent, that’s perfect for him.

I don’t know if your fanbase will ever get to that level, but it’s gratifying to see the Patreon model working for all these creators that I follow and enjoy, and I look forward to seeing it work for you as well.

I saw that! Actually when he said he had “an announcement on the future of Leftover Soup” I worried for a moment he was going the way of Girls with Slingshots and Shortpacked.

But yeah, I looked at several webcomicker’s patreon campaigns before deciding to go through with starting my own, and I’m motivated a lot by the ones that are able to make a career out of their webcomics. I just need to learn their secrets. Possibly with a hypno-ray.